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Abhik Roy
Education
Western Michigan University
Ph.D. in Program Evaluation
Kalamazoo, MI
2016
Michigan Technological University
M.S. in Mathematics
Houghton, MI
2007
West Virginia Wesleyan College
B.S. in Mathematics
Buckhannon, WV
2001
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
2023 - 2016
- Advising masters and doctoral level students.
- Authoring and submitting papers to peer reviewed publications.
- Pulling data from multiple remote sources, constructing static, active, and interactive visualizations for production and/or embedding within reports, and building Shiny apps and APIs within the R/RStudio environment.
- Developing enhanced and interactive surveys in Qualtrics using HTML, CSS, & Javascipt.
- Evaluating various programs, projects, and grants.
- Teaching evaluation and methods based classes with a focus on data science.
Data Analyst
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
2016 - 2014
- Created web apps in Shiny and Tableau to pull, summarize, and visualize data from the organization’s Oracle database.
- Led and presented findings from small and large scale qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies.
- Prepared evaluation reports for various stakeholders.
- Researched and implemented predictive statistical models for student retention and graduation efforts.
Select Projects
Lead Program Evaluator & Methodologist
Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health
West Virginia University Research Corporation
Morgantown, WV
Current - 2023
- Building valid and reliable survey instruments to assess participant experiences.
- Implementing process, monitoring, and impact evaluations of programmatic activities.
- Utilizing mixed methods designs to study participant data.
- Total Award: $4,870,000
- HRSA-19-049
Lead Program Evaluator & Mixed Methods Analyst
Teaching Science with Computational Thinking: Preparing Preservice Elementary Educators of the Future STEM Workforce
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Current - 2022
- Applying mixed methods text analysis of written and interview data using thematic analysis and various machine learning methods.
- Constructing and validating survey instruments used to assess progress and programmatic impact.
- Implementing process and impact evaluations of program activities.
- Total Award: $294,958.00
- 2019-NSF 2142274
Program Evaluator & Data Scientist
WVCTSI: West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
2022 - 2017
- Analyzed large data sets using frequentist and Bayesian methods.
- Conducted local and multi-site mutli-cluster evaluation studies.
- Developed/validated items and distributing customized Qualtrics surveys built with CSS and Javascript.
- Mentored future graduate social data scientists.
- Pulled, wrangled, and visualized secondary data in R.
- Total Award: $20,000,000
- 2017-NIH 2U54GM104942-02
Lead Program Evaluator
GAUSSI: Generating, Analyzing, and Understanding Sensory and Sequencing Information: A Trans-Disciplinary Graduate Training Program in Biosensing and Computational Biology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
2020 - 2017
- Conducted process evaluations of multiple grant related programs.
- Developed and distributed customized Qualtrics surveys built with CSS and Javascript.
- Directed unstructured and semi-structured interviews and focus groups assessing participant experiences.
- Implemented mixed methods evaluations to study program impacts on students and faculty.
- Pulled, wrangled, and visualized secondary data.
- Total Award: $3,013,779
- 2017-NSF 1450032
Select Talks
Best of Both Worlds: Affordances of Mixing Machine Learning and Qualitative Content Analysis
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA
2022
These Aren’t Random Words Just Strung Together?: Using Machine Learning and Pretty Visualizations to Discover Topics in Articles.
American Evaluation Association Annual Conference
virtual
2020
Why Is It That Writers Write but Fingers Don’t Fing? Using Machine Learning and Lexemes to Make Sense of Nonsense.
American Evaluation Association Annual Conference
Minneapolis, MN
2019